Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
Interesting round Home
For the third time since last June gasoline bootleggers last Thursday night raided the bulk plant of the Shaffer Oil and Refining company at Lincoln and obtained approximately 2,500 gallons of gasoline. In the three trips to the Lincoln plant the thieves have obtained total of 6,300 gallons of gasoline. Since the last raid George Sieb, the manager, had placed heavy steel chains on both the gates and tanks, but they were cut also, evidently by metal shears. Three men were under the care of physicians at Jerseyville last Saturday following their being badly bitten by a mad horse belonging to Otto Gotway, of Michatel township, near Jerseyville. The horse escaped its corral last Thursday night, broke down the corral fence on the farm of Harvey Spears, and attacked horses in the Spears farm yard. Spears, aroused by the commotion, sought to quiet the horse, but it turned on him, biting him severely, and pursued him as he fled to his house. He managed to get inside the house and the horse attempted to batter down the door by kicking it in. Otto Gotway and his brother, Edward, arrived and the three however, without being bitten. A veterinarian was then summoned and he killed the animal. An examination disclosed the horse had been suffering from an advanced case of rabies. An error in administering a cold remedy resulted in the death last Friday of Mrs. Walter Hymer, 26, of Hoopeston, and the grave illness of her husband. When Mrs. Hymer complained of suffering from heavy cold, her mother, Mrs. John Cary, gave Mrs. Hymer a box of insect powder, believing it to be a laxative treatment employed for relief in colds. When Mrs. Hymer complained of the peculiar taste of the potion, her husband tasted the powder. Both became violently ill. Mrs. Hymer was the mother of five children. Trial of Clarence Bertrand, Victor Festante and Sam Barnaby on charges of murdering William Schmidt in robbery of the Yellow Dog inn at Dwight on November 15, 1926, was continued last Friday until March 3. The trial is to be held at Morris, in Grundy, in which county the crime was committed. A fire at Lincoln last Friday night destroyed the Lincoln theatre, togeth- pipe organ. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The theatre will be rebuilt. There is a possibility of the A. E. Staley Corn Products Manufacturing company of Decatur opening a plant at Peoria. There is no unit of the Decatur company located there now and it is probable that with the extension of the barge line to Peoria in the near future, unit will be opened to take advantage of this facility. Henry Ford has announced his intention to devote the rest of his life and $100,000,000 of his fortune to the founding of schools. He said he had not yet decided on the number or location of the schools, but that some of them would be large institutions and that they would be situated in various parts of the country. A desire to do all in his power to help the young men of the country find their places in the world, he said, was the inspiration for his plan. He says he dont want any advice. Mrs. Mabel Decker died at her home in Owego township last Thursday of tuberculosis. Mrs. Decker had been ill for the last three years. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the Evangelical church, the Rev. Ezra E. Plapp, assisted by the Rev. Charles Wunsch, officiating. Burial was in the Patty cemetery. State Patrolman Sarver, of Chenoa, was injured in an accident in Bloomington last Friday afternoon, when a Corn Belt Lumber company truck, driven by W. Lienschlager, collided with the motorcycle he was riding. Mr. Sarver was thrown from his machine and sustained cuts about the left eye and a dislocated shoulder. He was taken ot St. Joseph's hospital at Bloomington in the police ambulance where he received treatment. He was later released and taken to his home at Chenoa by Patrolman Goetzke. The motorcycle was, wrecked. Three Chatsworth men were sent to the Kankakee hospital and a fourth was bruised and cut when a car driven by Joe Miller was wrecked in the north part of Kankakee, Monday night about 11:30. The four men left Chatsworth at about 9 o'clock and is failed to see a dangerous curve in the paved highway in time to stop, and when the car crashed into a tree Mr. Miller leived a broken collar bone and was cut and bruised about the face and body. William Meisenhelder was crushed through the chest and back. Thomas Lahey, Jr., had his hips crushed and possibly broken bone or two. James O'Malley, the other occupant of the car, got a bad bump on his head, his right thumb was cut and his legs cut and bruised. The first three men were taken to the hospital. Mr. O'Malley remained at hotel in Kankakee for the night and came home Tuesday morning not badly hurt. Mr. Miller was able to be brought home Wednesday afternoon. The other two men are still in the hospital. Mr. Meisenhelder, who was the most seriously injured, has been making his home in Chicago for some time, but was temporarily out of work and was vacationing here with friends. It is hard to tell at this time just how badly he or Mr. Lahey are hurt. - Chatsworth Plaindealer. A. M. Jones, president of the Citizens State Bank in Milford, fearing a run on his bank because of the closing of the First National, prepared for the emergency by having $50,000 in currency shipped in from Chicago. Last Thursday forenoon two automobiles arrived from the city, filled with officers, armed with machine guns. When the stacks of money were piled upon the bank's counters, all thoughts of run, if there were any, were soon ended. Jerome Browne, 18-year-old son of Mrs. Ivy Browne Wilson, was brought to the Iroquois hospital last week from their home near Kentland, Ind., suffering from some unknown malady. Dr. C. H. Dowsett was called into the case by Dr. Mathew, of Kentland, and after thorough diagnosis, said the young man was suffering from spinal meningitis. There has been an epidemic of meningitis in Indianapolis for several weeks and many cases have been reported from over the state. The young man died this morning at 4:25 o'clock. Watseka Republican. Two weeks ago a stranger stopped at the Dixie Wrecking Yard in West Watseka and had some work done. He presented an Iowa check for $94.27 in payment and received a considerable difference in cash. Harry Pulsipher waited on him and later cashed the check at the Farmers Grain company, who deposited it in the Citizens bank. A few days later the check was returned to the bank here, marked "bank closed." Whether the stranger knew the bank was closed or whether he did not, it is all the same to the Dixie Wrecking Yard, who made good the amount.-Watseka Republican. If physicians practice regularly in one or more counties, it is their duty to have their license recorded in the office of the county clerk of each county, Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom held in a recent opinion. The opinion was given at the request of M. E. Walsh, director of the state department of registration and education, who stated he had received inquiries from several county clerks asking information regarding the registration of physicians. Now that we have basketball in mind-the prize stalling game was reported recently when Catlin, a village in Vermilion county, didn't pass the ball the entire 32 minutes of regular play. The score was 0-0 at the end of the regular playing time, and Catlin won in the overtime 5-0. That is a good way to kill the basketball game. People go to basketball games to see action and don't like to see teams stall.
